that one time that i ordered a pair of shutters and they showed up 6 months later im not even kidding
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Thereās a difference between genuine and superficial interest though. Itās like the difference between a stranger asking how are you and a friend asking that.
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Fidget spinners? At least Iāve gotten that impression.
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thereās a fidget spinner community?
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R/fidgetspinners 11k members
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I donāt have any issue with them, and itās something to do with your hands when you canāt be throwing a chunk of some hard material around on the end of a string. Iām always fiddling with something, and its nice to have something less distracting when the situation requires. Outside of this I find them to be boring. Iām more likely to have quiet begleri or one of those dog bone shaped finger rollers. Or a pen.
When this summerās batch of engineering/comp sci interns came in somebody decided to give them these cool pens that had a really bright LED light on one end. The button for that LED was way too easy to click, and was located on the barrel of the pen. Just after the interns got these pens, the lights were dimmed to play some video and through the whole video there were random flashes of bright light going on and off as people fiddled with their pens. In a couple weeks some poor intern managed to illuminate the retinas of a visiting VIP across a conference room table. All the sudden there was a big effort to recover all these pens, and consequently they became as highly coveted as a rainicorn swirl.
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Yea, that may be true, but I guess the tone I portrayed in my response was inaccurate. I said āactā interested, but they actually were. They went out of their way to suggest tricks that they knew. I still get comments about my yoyo skills from those people to this day.
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What are your quiet begleri made of? The only quiet begleri I own are a set of black AroundSquare silicone Everyman beads with rose gold Herc core inserts.
Yeah silicone, and I have some that are monkey fists made out of thick paracord knotted around something. I also took some 12mm nuts and stacked them till each bead was about the size/weight I wanted, and epoxied a washer to one end to capture the knot. I put a throwaway piece of paracord in each one and stuffed them full of some putty and then dipped them in some plastic dip which dries to a silicone consistency. Once that dried I yanked out the putty and strung them up. They were pretty quiet. I eventually gave them away to somebody who was intrigued by them.
I need to make another set, but Iām thinking about ways to improve on the design.
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Also keep in mind that I really just enjoy a good back and forth discussion so when I respond like that Iām not trying to pick apart what you say, Iām just throwing a thought out there.
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Yeah, Iām certain I fit in this category. I totally understand why people collect all kinds of things. Iām more interested in the sentiment Iāve noticed about fidget spinners. I donāt think Iāve really noticed it here, but more so on facebook bst and reddit. My perspective is that anybody who likes spinning toys has the potential to get really into yoyos.
I think youāll find there are people that do this.
There are people out there that think this about playing yoyo too.
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Ah, the good old communication barrier.
I see āNobody does such and such,ā and I interpret it as āHardly anyone does such and such,ā but with āNobodyā used merely to make the statement more emphatic in tone. Others, however, see that and interpret it so very literally, as āAbsolutely nobody anywhere ever does such and such,ā and then proceeds to triumphantly dismantle it with logic nobody can refute, but which is being aimed at a statement nobody is really making.
Gotta love the Internet (though to be fair, Iām sure this kind of thing also occurred in the age of physical letter-writing).
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Iām honestly not a fan of speaking in hyperbolic terms to add emphasis. Iām guilty of it myself, but in an age where people speak in memes and layers of colloquialisms it can be helpful to be more direct and clear in word choice.
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In the past I have heard, āwhat did I just see?ā
The oddest response was yo-yoing in front of a person who suffers from vertigo, and although he liked it, it made him dizzy.
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You seem pretty upset by that.
Iām not sure I said anything ātriumphantlyā at all.
Iāve told you yo-yoers a MILLION TIMES to STOP EXAGGERATING!!!@!!21!one
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Oh I know what you meanā¦
But really, the price isnāt inflated. We pay the same amount as Americans just our dollar/euro is worth less.
You just did it again
(taking what someone said too literally)
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Iām not exactly sure how to understand what someone is saying if I canāt take it that they mean what they said.
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